David Hall has warned that what happened in Console could happen again in the Irish charity sector

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said: “The Department confirms that following the conclusion of an audit by the Department’s Evaluation and Audit Unit, repayment of these grants was requested.

“There is an investigation ongoing by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement into issues surrounding the liquidation of Console, and as such there will be no further comment from the Department on this matter.”

The charity’s former interim CEO David Hall, who was appointed to steady the ship before liquidation, told how a situation like Console could happen again in the Irish charity sector.

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He told Newstalk: “It is highly likely that it will happen again.

"But it is very important to mention this is such a small number of issues that have arisen around charities based on the number of good work and good people that have been done by charities nationwide.

“This is a handful of people that are always going to try something somewhere.

"They just happen to have done it in the charitable sector which has caused difficulties.”

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